


(Oslo) (11 June 2010) - Silverlight improvements.Bing Maps Silverlight Beta (2 December 2009) - Silverlight, Twitter, Streetside.v6.2 (Ikonos) (14 April 2009) - Performance improvements.Data Update (29 December 2008) - 48TB of road network data.v6.2 (Helios) (24 September 2008) - Multi-point driving directions, landmarks in directions, weather, real stars, new data.v6.1 (GoliatH) (10 April 2008) - Improved quality of 3D models, improved KML support and new export capabilities, street labels on Bird's Eye imagery, MapCruncher integration, HD filming capabilities, Clearflow traffic report system.v6 (Gemini) (15 October 2007) - New data, party maps, traffic based routing, v6 MapControl, Bird's Eye in 3D, etc.v5.5 (Falcon) (3 April 2007) VE 3D plugin for Firefox, GeoRSS support, area calculations.Data update (29 March 2007) - 3.8TB of bird's-eye imagery, orthophotos and 3D models of 5 British cities.Data update (January 2007) - Over 100 European cities with bird's-eye coverage added.Data update (December 2006) - New 3D models and high-resolution imagery for 6 new areas.v5 (Spaceland) (November 2006) - 3D viewer, building models in 15 cities.v4 (Endeavour) (September 2006) - People search, drawing on maps, new imagery.v3 (Discovery) (May 2006) - Real time traffic, collections, new API.

v2 (Calypso) (December 2005) - "Bird's-eye imagery" released.On Jit was announced the base map data of the Bing Maps Platform would now be sourced from TomTom. From 2012, Nokia (formerly Navteq) powered many aspects of Bing Maps as an extension to its Windows Phone 7 partnership with Microsoft, including mapping data, geocoding, traffic data and navigation. In 2010, Microsoft added an OpenStreetMap layer to Bing Maps. On June 3, 2009, Microsoft officially rebranded Live Search Maps as Bing Maps, and the Virtual Earth platform as Bing Maps for Enterprise. Microsoft subsequently referred to this product officially as " Live Search Maps", integrating it as part of its Live Search services. NET managed control and managed interfaces to Direct3D. On November 6, 2006, Microsoft added the ability to view the maps in 3D using a. In December 2005, Virtual Earth was replaced by Windows Live Local, featuring improvements, technologies from Pictometry International, and integrated with the Local Search index on Windows Live Search. The original version lacked many of its distinguishing features, including birds' eye view and 3D maps, and the Collections functionality was limited to a single "Scratchpad" of points of interest. Its original stand out feature was the aerial imagery. It was a continuation of previous Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft MapPoint and TerraServer. Windows Live Local Beta, showing aerial imageryīing Maps was originally launched as MSN Virtual Earth, which was released for beta testing on July 24, 2005.
